Episode Details

Every week, Chris Bates and Pete Wargent jump on the Australian Property Podcast airwaves to answer your questions or cover the top 3 property news stories of the news. Don't forget to send Chris and Pete your questions!

In this week’s episode, Chris and Pete cover:

1 – Traffic disaster at Rozelle interchange!

2 – Petrol prices drop 30 cents at the bowser, Fed pivots

3 – Global population growth pushback emerging?

Story 1 – Rozelle interchange

• Rozelle Interchange design issues will be a problem for Sydney's future, experts say
• ‘Disaster’: frustration boils over at residents’ meeting about Sydney’s Rozelle interchange
• Rebel Wilson complains she's 'had to get a helicopter to work' due to Rozelle Interchange traffic in Sydney during cringey post filmed on a helipad
• How Australia’s ‘massive traffic muck-up’ stalled Sydney
• Transurban hits back at claim it is ‘hiding in the shadows’ amid commuter anger over Sydney’s $3.9bn Rozelle interchange

Story 2 – Petrol prices drop 30 cents at the bowser, Fed pivots

• Petrol prices drop 30¢ at the bowser as oil slumps
• Powell signals Fed ready to cut rates next year

Story 3 – Global population growth pushback

• 100,000 foreign ‘students’ won’t come or will go home under reforms
• Labor targets student and some worker visas in overhaul of Australia’s temporary migration program
• New migration strategy aims to reduce Australian arrivals to 'sustainable level'
• Immigration fuels Canada's largest population growth of over 1 million
• Can a zoning ‘revolution’ save Canada from a housing crisis?

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